Dicke Etiquette Dinner

    I think that I am at the most boring part of my college experience ever. I spent most of my days going to classes then just hanging out until I realize it is bedtime. I spend my weekends watching football, which by no means am I complaining but that might seem boring to talk about. I decided this week to talk about the Etiquette dinner we had last week even though I never really planned on it. 

    I was pretty nervous for some reason. It was one of those things where I know everyone has to do it but, I had zero idea what it was going to be. From what I had gathered from my "intelligent" guesses which were totally wrong. It was something where we sit down with really important people here at ONU and have dinner and are expected to know all of the proper etiquette. I was very happy that I was wrong. So, I got all dressed up and headed to the Inn. I obviously met up with my friends because why would I go alone? But we get all registered and talk to each other, still all confused where the direction of this event is going until we finally heard from someone. We were informed then that this was practically an in-depth long presentation of what these etiquette dinners look like and how you are supposed to act. We started in this room and practiced introductions and shaking people's hands. Later we moved into the room where we would actually eat dinner. I was super lucky and did not have anyone high up sitting at my table. It was all students as well, which made it a lot more relaxed. This part I honestly was not a huge fan of we had to eat super quietly while she spoke about some more topics regarding etiquette and didn't even really get a chance to speak to the people we sat with, but it was not like bad.

    I learned a lot of valuable things that I will remember moving forward and it was not really as scary as I thought it would be. I would say the biggest thing I learned from it was during the handshake you are never supposed to have your hand tilted in any way. Interesting, but apparently it means you are trying to assert dominance which is not a good idea. I did not get any pictures of me at the event so enjoy this one of Brandt.